Hitch: The Life and Times of Alfred Hitchcock
by John Russell Taylor
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One of cinema's greatest directors, a virtuoso visual artist, and a genius of the suspense genre, Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) is universally known for such masterpieces asStrangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, andThe Birds. John Russell Taylor, a distinguished film critic and friend of Hitchcock's, enjoyed his full cooperation. Based on numerous interviews, with photos from the private family albums, and an in-depth study of the making of his last film, this show more biography of the director is as intriguing, revealing, perverse, and entertaining as any Hitchcock classic. show lessTags
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John Russell Taylor was Professor in the Cinema Division of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
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- Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 791.43 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Public performances Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Motion pictures
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- PN1998 .A3 .H567 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Motion pictures
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